Thanks to Wayne, the scholarships are now being advertised, happy to talk to any final year students expecting to receive 1st class honours with WAM > 85, and or industry professionals interested in pursuing some research work for a while.
Smart Services CRC PhD Scholarships Available in Cloud Computing Research
Posted by annaliu on August 28th, 2009 · Uncategorized
Attending NICTA TechFest
Posted by annaliu on August 14th, 2009 · Work
I was very impressed with some of the fantastic research showcased at NICTA TechFest earlier in the week. Was a great chance to catch up with a number of old colleagues from the research world as well as some familiar faces from Microsoft. I even had the chance to talk geek with James and Liam about how to embed some of our cloud platform evaluaton results into an architecture analysis tool like ePASA as part of the Business Adaptation and Interoperability program of work, so to carry out pre-Cloud migration assessment (more about this later). Besides all the cool science embodied in some of the projects, I think I am most impressed by the enterpreneurial culture the management team at NICTA have created for the next generation of Australian innovators.
I even got to find out that Bob is the one responsible for naming the event TechFest, which is a very familiar term for me having spent some years at Microsoft attending the MS TechFest event.
One observation is that I didn’t see many of the bloggers and twitteratis/digiratis attending, and I fear the word about this great event simply isn’t out there enough? plenty of VCs and government funding body reps were there though!
Sharing our early UNSW Research Findings on Cloud Computing
Posted by annaliu on August 11th, 2009 · Uncategorized
Thanks to the AAF2009 organisers for their kind invitation, we will be at the next Australian Architect Forum sharing some of our early UNSW research findings on ‘Evaluating Cloud Application Platforms’. Should be fun, look forward to seeing you all!
Bridging the Gap between Industry and Academia
Posted by annaliu on August 11th, 2009 · Uncategorized
I came back to UNSW from Microsoft in January, it’s been a very busy 7 months, catching up with some old colleagues, met lots of new people, clashing with lots of new organisational processes and culture, and most fun of all, doing research and looking at the world again with a good dosage of rigour and scepticism.
Many of my former industry colleagues asked me how one could go about engaging with academia/researchers, so I plan to share some of those discoveries here on this channel.
To start with, the Australian Government supports Industry and Academia Research through the ARC Linkage program – it’s the perfect thing if the collaboration is a research program spanning a number of years, and with excellent matching financial support from the oz Government, means that we could really tackle something that would otherwise be too high risk for the industry organisation to tackle alone. And of course – the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) model is another one, I happen to be a Research Program Leader for the Smart Services CRC here, in the area of Services Engineering, Services Aggregation and Cloud Computing, and it is another Government funding supported collaboration model that brings together industry and academic researchers.
For a more immediate response to research and industry collaboration, the UNSW Research Services is the best thing I’ve come across so far, but maybe there is room for something in between…
Perhaps it’s time for me to talk to David Jordan and figure out how we could better respond to collaboration opportunities in internet time. Might even have to spin up something myself! Drop me a line if you’ve a bright idea!
Hello World Again!
Posted by annaliu on August 11th, 2009 · Uncategorized
of course credits goes to Frank Arrigo who got me started blogging on MSDN all those years ago, and the architect team as buddy bloggers along the way, and then the web team that made twitters and blogs more effective communication mechanisms than monthly reports for me.
Now that I’m back in academia/research, let’s see if I can put this tool to some novel uses here – perhaps I could start with avoiding all face to face supervisions using this channel – Xiaomin is already blogging his progress in ‘building interoperable cloud services’, let’s see how Rajiv and Liang responds to the challenge!
I might even engage the Smart Services CRC participants using this channel perhaps starting with Alan…
Women in IT
Posted by annaliu on August 11th, 2009 · Uncategorized
thanks to Nadia for telling the story!
let’s hope that one day in Australia, we would see many young women opting to take on computer science courses at Universities because it is fun, interesting, challenging, and provides them with a great foundation for a sucessful and happy life!
and that we see many female software engineers, IT organisation leaders out there striking a great work life balance in the exciting and fulfilling ICT industry!
Hello World!
Posted by annaliu on July 23rd, 2009 · Uncategorized
Looks like UNSW has provided me with a blogging home now – thanks to Robyn!